• @[email protected]
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    97 months ago

    All of this is correct, except that it’s not a “mistranslation”, it’s a borrowing. Boundaries between words and morphemes are commonly lost in borrowing, and borrowed sounds commonly undergo adaptation as well.

    • NielsBohron
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      57 months ago

      Thank you. Linguistics is not my field, obviously